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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the role of tradition in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) It asserts the kinship of cultural forms.
(b) It repairs the connection with Africa.
(c) It hides the differences between black experiences.
(d) It forms the basis for pan-Africanism.

2. What is the aim of Chapter 6?
(a) To cast tradition as something other than modernity's opposite.
(b) To narrate the he says that of tradition as a concept in the black experience.
(c) To demonstrate the ambivalence toward 'tradition' in black communities.
(d) To describe the ways tradition has been harmful to the black experience.

3. What does Gilroy say blacks used to unify themselves?
(a) Music.
(b) Literature.
(c) A political agenda.
(d) Art.

4. What does Gilroy say the Afrocentrism movement relies on?
(a) A uniquely black culture in England and the U.S.
(b) The development of jazz and the blues in America.
(c) A linear period of time interrupted by slavery.
(d) An ongoing civilization in Africa.

5. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?
(a) Blacks generally.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Slavers.
(d) Free blacks.

6. What term did James Weldon Johnson use for blacks in The Autobiography of An Ex-Coloured Man?
(a) 'Dual personality'.
(b) 'Urban-cosmopolitan'.
(c) 'King of the kingdom of culture'.
(d) 'Schizophrenic'.

7. What does Gilroy say about racial traditions?
(a) They are endangered throughout the world, not just in the black Atlantic.
(b) We cannot recover them once they are lost.
(c) We can regain them if they are still practiced somewhere.
(d) They are the source of all opposition to modernity.

8. What does Gilroy say we should discuss?
(a) Common themes between the Holocaust and slavery.
(b) The opportunities for understanding brought about by modern communication techniques.
(c) The dangers of industrial technology.
(d) The differences between the Holocaust and slavery.

9. What were Richard Wright's politics?
(a) Communist.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Anti-imperialist.
(d) Militarist.

10. What heresy did Richard Wright commit, in Gilroy's account?
(a) Saying that history would repeat itself with slavery.
(b) Saying that blacks shared responsibility for their situation.
(c) Saying that black liberation was impossible, because the self is an endless war against itself.
(d) Saying that blacks really were inferior to whites, in certain cases.

11. How did Richard Wright want to present blacks in his books?
(a) As victims of white power.
(b) As agents in the oppression of others.
(c) As something other than victims.
(d) As collaborators in their own oppression.

12. What kinds of stories does Gilroy say dominate black popular culture?
(a) Suffering and revenge.
(b) Love and loss.
(c) Justice and its consequences.
(d) Freedom and its costs.

13. How does Gilroy defend Richard Wright against charges of sexism?
(a) By arguing that Wright was insightful into the sexist nature of black experience.
(b) By describing the role of women in Wright's life.
(c) By analyzing female characters in Wright's minor novels.
(d) By saying that Wright's main characters are often sympathetic with women.

14. What does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?
(a) Limitation to historical self-awareness.
(b) Internalization of an oppressed mindset.
(c) Transcendent consciousness.
(d) Fragmentation of the global consciousness.

15. When did Richard Wright believe the western consciousness began to break down according to Gilroy?
(a) With the development of technology.
(b) With the beginning of slavery.
(c) When religious understanding of the world collapsed.
(d) With the beginning of the Renaissance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?

2. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?

3. What does Gilroy say was a formative influence on black culture in Richard Wright's works?

4. What is the last period of black history, according to DuBois, in The Souls of Black Folk?

5. How does Gilroy turn away from Richard Wright at the end of The Black Atlantic?

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